In response to my post yesterday, a reader and Facebook friend pointed me to at least one clear example of a conservative intellectual arguing that a desire to preserve "cultural continuity" does predispose those on his side of the spectrum negatively towards some aspects of science. Here's Yuval Levin, author of the book Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy:
Q: Your new book is all about science and ideology. How would you describe the differences in how the left and the right look at science? Levin: The book is about what we can learn about our politics from the science debate. Science is a useful clarifying lense to look at our politics because it brings to the surface things that are often implicit and under the surface. And some of them really point to deep differences between the right and the left, especially in terms of how we look ...
